Emotions of the Internet.

[Patria_y_LaPava]

Recentley I have been noticing something about "internet life" and its subcultural features that has plagued some out of the millions that log on each and everyday. Emotional attachment and personality traits being exposed online.

For many, the "internet subculture" is nothing but a cliché that will fade and emotional attachment is not possible, nor is it sane. For others, no matter how hard they try, they actually start to care for those they meet through this very machine. They love the communication with people, that otherwise, would never had even written to or spoke to. People with shared intrests, or people with intrests far from yours but love to debate on them, the reason why discussion boards, like this very one, were created.

The internet have filled the void in some people lives, for other it has neither filled or taken anything away, emotionally or mentally, from them, and for many it has brought in something extra in their lives. The people you meet online you may never want to ever really meet in "real life", maybe the excitment and the mystery would have disappeared because you are back into a world you are all too familiar with, not in a world that you can decide who you want to "interact" with and how much.

The internet, as it seems, have become a new wave of addiction, but not on any drug, but on people and information. The endless pool of information and people willing to share it and theirs, attracts so many online. May it be useful or tasteful information is up to the provider and the viewer.

This machine allows you to "see" into peoples lives, trying to understand what goes on with others far, far away, in different cities, different nations, culures, ages, and professions. It may be all a lie from the people you "interact" with, but you have no way of finding out, so the internet also becomes a tool of false attachment. Like if you married a con artist who you though had a certain name, origin, and profession, but in reality it was all a lie, and you never found out, but that person knows who he or she really are.

So is emotional attachment on the internet just a big lie of false emotional interaction? Should people get emotionally attached at all, online? What if all you know about someone, online, is true, it seems as if that person is someone you would of loved if you meet face to face but could not, and probably never will, what is the point of "interacting" with that person at all and why online?

Those are the questions that needs to be answered, because understanding the meaning of them will open up a window from the void of why human beings would even like to interact with another human being through a machine, are computers just advanced telephones? You be the judge...

[Suki]

I have noticed in my novice use of the internet that there is a lot of things that are just not true or made up. And I feel that I have been dangerously honest with people because I don't have anything to hide. But maybe others do....plus I think people should be allowed to use this modern new communication device for the purpose of interacting.....but it will never replace cara-a-cara conversation or being able to see people's faces and be in their physical and spiritual vibratory presence. Yet their thoughts and ideas can touch your mind and your heart and true and honest emotion comes from that. That is where we can all be brothers and sisters and feel true human kinship and humane love and compassion for one another.

It is a great tool.....too bad I am so bad at using the new technology I can barely sign on this forum....so old fashioned and out-of-date am I still.LOL.

And the tactics one has to resort to to gain a little trust in this medium is incredible! (I wonder who I am addressing Pava?)

Suki. lol.

[Patria_y_LaPava]

Originally posted by Suki
It is a great tool.....too bad I am so bad at using the new technology I can barely sign on this forum....so old fashioned and out-of-date am I still.LOL.

And the tactics one has to resort to to gain a little trust in this medium is incredible! (I wonder who I am addressing Pava?)

Suki. lol.

Dont worry, technology will advace to deal with the handicapped, lol.

I dont know who your addressing, I havent have the slitest clue... LOL!

[yautiawoman2]

Originally posted by Patria_y_LaPava

Dont worry, technology will advace to deal with the handicapped, lol.

I dont know who your addressing, I havent have the slitest clue... LOL!

Dear Suki and Pava: In my humble opinion, (with no documentation to support it), it is the handicapped that can most benefit from this medium (the world wide net), if you cannot do anything, if you cannot leave your home, if you are in a wheelchair or a hospital bed, it is the best way to keep in touch with the world. Technology has only advanced to deal with the handicapped because there is lots of money to facilitate this medium to handicapped people. It is the people who are not constantly using it that cannot access it, but if you can get to someone who is hooked to this all day, you can learn a lot. Yautia from the Learning Disabilities Association, Bilingual Chapter. Que vivan los Impedidos!

PS there is going to be an International Conference of The Learning Disabilities Association en Denver, Colorado en febrero 2002, todos los impedidos pa Denver en febrero de 2002, quisiera poner el web site del LDA pero no me atrevo, Eddie se puede molestar! LOL Yautia :-)

[Eddier1]

La Yautia said:

PS there is going to be an International Conference of The Learning Disabilities Association en Denver, Colorado en febrero 2002, todos los impedidos pa Denver en febrero de 2002, quisiera poner el web site del LDA pero no me atrevo, Eddie se puede molestar! LOL Yautia :-) [/b][/quote]
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Tsk, tsk, now why would it bother me if you posted the website of the LDA? It would be better to post it on the Message Boards at that website if they have them, and I am willing to bet they do have the equivalent of that.

That there might be persons on this forum with disabilities I do not doubt for a moment. Just as in daily life one finds many persons with chronic ailments, and outright disabilities which are noticeable, you will find them too on the Internet. No...umm no, La Yautia, nothing about this topic of those with disabilities is a joke or laughable IMHO.

Now, if there is anything that you have done that bothers me is when you censored, an error by omission perhaps, my post about orthodox Marxism. That is the only thing that I can not accept, and which certainly bothered me a lot. Also that you did not address nor answer the question I asked you of why you did that, also leads me to believe that you did it intentionally. Perhaps, you think you know more about Papa Marx than orthodox Marxists do, huh? And you thought that I would not be perceptive enough to catch what you did to my post. On both counts you are totally wrong! Now, it is too late to offer any excuse as to why you did such a shabby thing of intellectual dishonesty, and I will never accept anything you might say to try to smooth things over.

You are very experienced in the world of intellectual matters, as I can see from your posts, and you don't like for anyone to criticize you in any way, shape, nor form. Well, perhaps, there is the exception in the rule with respect to El Machetero, who you think so highly and emotionally about. For me, the Macheteros are all extremely suspect as being "sting operatives" of Puerto Rican law enforcement in terms of Police Intelligence. We have some evidence that they committed all those acts of terrorism in order to blame them on the Independentists, who they have been out to destroy for years and years in P.R.. And, of course, they use "disrupters" too who are undercover operatives of their enforcements. But then this must all sound familiar to you La Yautia, eh?

The last I heard from you is that you are leaving the Puerto Rico.com forums. Too bad, although it will be better emotionally for you in the long run. The Internet can be a real battleground of ideas and emotions, if you know what I mean.

Bye, Bye to You,
EddieR

[Suki]

Do it on her e-mail and one-on-one. She knows about los Macheteros but they have become a political party and she believes in Unity of all independentista groups. They have supposedly renounced violence so she wants unity. Is that so wrong?

Yautia responds very well to criticism as long as it is for everyone's benefit in the long run. If you want to criticize her go ahead and e-mail her again. Marxists are far and few between in this world and tearing each other down is not good. All socialistas democraticos should build each other up instead. Yautia is not an internet person per se. She is into organizing schools and parents and coping with worst case scenarios in education, civil rights, etc. That includes, members of ethnic minorities, women, elderly and handicapped and any member of society who has trouble getting their human rights enforced and in place. No se por que estas molesto con ella Eddie?

Suki.

BTW, today was my father's birthday and I was very sad. Your post did not help me at all.

[Eddier1]

Suki don't worry about it. In fact, forget about it!, because no one on this forum knows what the hell we Marxists are talking about anyway, especially when it comes to intra-factional disputes between us Marxists.

I see it comes at an inopportune time for you, what with the memoriam of your dad. Human emotions, alas, are like time's winged-chariots that wait for no one.

Regards,
EddieR